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At a US soccer game at in US Stadium,
Its fans were vastly outnumbered. Its goalkeeper was bathed in a chanted obscenity. Even its national anthem was filled with the blowing of air horns and bouncing of beach balls . Most of these hostile visitors didn't live in another country. Most, in fact, were not visitors at all, many of them being U.S. residents whose lives are here but whose sporting souls remain elsewhere."
Wow. After reading the op-ed and the included link to the LA Times pieces...just wow. I don't believe immigrants need to leave everything behind when coming here. You can certainly still cheer for your original country. I have no problem with that. But I do have a serious dislike for going so far as to boo the American National team.
I'm not normally a love it or leave it kind of woman, but the man who said he didn't choose this country so his heart remains with Mexico? Well he's certainly choosing to remain here and as far as I'm concerned he can choose to return.
If these fans have their loyalties divided by a sports team I can't help but to wonder what they'd do, vote or how they'd act on larger issues that have the potential to arise between the US and Mexico. It does not make me think favorably on certain issues of the day, either. Perhaps that is too much to take away from a simple sports game yet it is potentially illuminating all the same.
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this should be in the sports forum, or better yet in who-gives-a-$h!t.com.
At a US soccer game at in US Stadium,
Its fans were vastly outnumbered. Its goalkeeper was bathed in a chanted obscenity. Even its national anthem was filled with the blowing of air horns and bouncing of beach balls . Most of these hostile visitors didn't live in another country. Most, in fact, were not visitors at all, many of them being U.S. residents whose lives are here but whose sporting souls remain elsewhere."
Yet, something here is amiss. The Mexican immigrants of today are noticeably different from the Mexican immigrants of a few decades ago. They're more defiant, more entitled and more intent on preserving their culture and maintaining their love for a country they left behind -- one that hasn't always loved them back.
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The American soccer team should have (collectively) fallen down and grabbed their ankles while writhing in pain so that then refs could draw a yellow card on the Mexican fans.
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